Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.
Category: Published in The New Stack Update
What is Redis?
If you think of Redis first and foremost as a database, then you are probably not a Node.js developer. According to a RisingStack survey, 49 percent of Node.js developers use Redis for caching, 37 percent as a database and 2 percent as a messaging system. In other […]
DBaaS – Surprise, the Big Three Cloud Providers Lead
A recent survey found that almost half of respondents still prefer to run databases inside a virtual machine — 30 percent said they would rather utilize a Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering. When conducting their own research, DBaaS provider Tesora found that the most important criteria for DBaaS […]
Open Container Initiative Participation
Should community participants fork Docker to facilitate increased participation? And if so, should that activity occur within Open Container Initiative (OCI) projects? We don’t know the answers, but we have been evaluating the health of OCI projects. Using a dashboard created by Bitergia, we found that the number […]
Girls Outperform, Boys Drool
Women are more successful at getting pull requests accepted than men on GitHub. That’s the conclusion reported in an academic paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men. By comparing GitHub email addresses with self-reported gender on Google+, researchers found […]
Old Apps, Bad Apps
In software, there are few oldies but goodies. Yet, perhaps we shouldn’t accuse developers of ageism. Sonatype’s 2016 Software Supply Chain report looked at 1,000 repository managers and the components they manage. Components more than two years old account for over 53 percent of the software parts development […]
Docker on AWS, On premises K8s internally?
Two-thirds of container users say they deploy most frequently on either AWS or internal data centers. For AWS, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes vie with ECS to be the preferred orchestration tool. Docker doesn’t do as well for on premises container deployment. Internally developed tools are […]
Number of Nodes Matters
As the number of nodes or machines managing containers in production increases, so does the need for container orchestration tools. As the size of deployments increase, tooling decisions become more important. As we wrote about last week, Kubernetes and HashiCorp see the largest uptick in use as deployment scales increase. […]
Agreement Between Sec and Dev
Information security pros may be a thorn in developers’ sides, but, in reality, they need each other, and they know it. New Relic just released results from a survey of both developers and security pros. They found much more agreement than you would think. At least 79 […]
Has Container Adoption Stalled?
Instead of a large uptake in new container users, the “action” is in converting small implementations into larger ones.
But I Thought Development Time Was Contracting
According to a BCG study, long development times have become an even bigger inhibitor to innovation and product development. In an article about NoOps and serverless, Mark Boyd speculated that this is because DevOps adds development time as application builders become weighed down by the need to manage […]
Do App Developers Count?
13 million developers are registered with Apple. How many of those are professional coders and how many are just taking advantage of the developer program’s freebies? We don’t know, but we believe most are not professional coders. If they were, then 65 percent of self-identified […]